Mark Bello
Mark Bello is a tour-de-force of creativity and energy, sharing his knowledge and love of pizza with unpretentious ease. Born in NYC and raised on the famous thin crust pizzas indigenous to his NY and NJ upbringing, his love of gastronomy was carefully cultivated by his parents and then left to simmer for several years while he worked his way up to an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Post graduation, Mark stayed on in Chicago for 10 years developing a successful furniture business, designing and constructing renowned window displays, and producing acclaimed arts events. While his time away proved to be creatively very satisfying, culinarily there was an innate craving that needed to be satisfied. Living in a land of deep-dish and dismal brand-name pizzas he vowed to feed his need for the pizzas of his youth: so he took to the kitchen and mastered a recipe for perfect pizza in the home oven. After a decade of refining, including a period of living, eating and cooking in Italy, Mark has returned to his East Coast roots and established Pizza a Casa performance style pizza catering and cooking class company.